Armature-winding apparatus.



PATENTED MAY 5,1903. F. P. McBBRTY. ARMATURE WINDING APPARATUS.

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I @VYITNESSES j UNITED STATEs Patented May 5, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

FRED P. MCBERTY, OF WARREN, OHIO, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS,

TO THE PEERLESS ELECTRIC COMPANY, OF WARREN, OHIO, A CORPORA- TION OF OHIO.

ARMATURE-WINDING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 727,182,da.ted May 5, 1903.

Application filed July '7, 1902. Serial No. 114,572. (No model.)

the chuck with the armature in dotted lines,

and Fig. 3 is a top planview of the same.

My invention relates to the winding of electric conductors upon armature-cores or the cores of electromagnets, and is designed to provide an improved chuck for the armature or other device to be wound, to provide an improved guide by which an armature may be wound through diametrically opposite slots, and generally to improve the structure and arrangement of these winding devices and make them simple and easily operated.

In the drawings, 2 represents a chuck consisting of a vertical frame mounted on a shaft 3. The ends of this frame are bent over at at 4. One of these parts 4 has a stud 5 arranged to enter the end of the armature-shaft 6,while the other is provided with a set-screw 7 ,which enters the opposite end of the shaft by means of a button 8 to clamp the shaft in place. The armature 9 is mounted upon this shaft in the usual manner and provided with the usual longitudinal slots 10.

At one side of the frame 2 is pivoted a swinging bracket 11, to which is secured a wireguide 12. The opposite legs a a of this wireguide extend parallel with the axis of the armature-shaft and are positioned so as to be at one side of the conductor. The upper and lower portions b and c of the guide are curved, one upon one side of the armature-shaft and the other upon the opposite side, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 3, the curved parts extending in the same direction. I have shown the part b as having a shallower curve than that of the part c; but if the portions of the armature-shaft on each side of the core are substantially equal in length the curves of the guide may be of the same depth. These curved portions serve to pass the wire to one side of the armature-shaft as it is revolved with the chuck.

The chuck may be driven from any suitable source, and I have shown it as connected to the armature of an electric motor 13, which is of the shunt-wound type.

device 16 of any ordinary character, which .will stop the rotation of the chuck when the desired number of turns have been given. In connection with'this counting device I show a signaling device consisting of a pin 17 upon a revolving counter, which .is adapted to operate a switch 18, that will operate a signal lamp, hell, or other signaling or switching device.

In operating the apparatus the wire is fed in the ordinary manner and may be wound in diametrically opposite slots at each side of the armature-shaft. As the shaft 3 is revolved the curved portions of the wire-guide deflect the wire around the armature-shaft, when it will then draw within the slot.

The advantages of my invention result from the use of a single chuck, which is connected to the ends of the armature-shaft or to the opposite centers of the armature-core, and, further, from the USB 'OIIhG wire-guide which guides the wire and deflects it around the shaft. The hinging of the guide to the chuck enables it to be swung to one side when the winding of one armature-core is completed and, further, from the simplicity and ease of operation.

Many changes maybe made in the form and arrangement of the chuck, the wire-guides, 850., without departing from my invention.

I claim- 1. In apparatus for windingarmatures, a single chuck having means for clamping the opposite ends'o'f the armature-shaft,mechanism for rotating the chuck and a wire-guide for leading the wire tothe armature; substantially as described.

2. In winding apparatus, mechanism for clamping a drum-armature on its longitudi- The other end nal axis, mechanism for rotating the clamp- 10o clamping and rotating a drum-armature, and a guide arranged to rotate with the armature, 5 said guide consisting of a loop having curved end portions extending across and to one side of the armatu re-shaft on opposite sides of the core; substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set 20 my hand.

FRED P. MOBERTY.

Witnesses:

PLUMA SPARKS, MARY STORIER. 

